Publications

The rise of mandatory arbitration highlights how legal rules shape economic outcomes by limiting workers’ and consumers’ access to the courts.

During the Biden years, infrastructure investments helped create clean energy jobs, some of which were union jobs. The Trump administration is working to reverse those gains.

The abundance agenda blames regulation for scarcity, but often overlooks monopolies, private equity loopholes, and the complex realities driving housing costs.

The Trump administration is seeking to dismiss a pollution case brought against an Elon Musk-owned company, arguing that its AI chatbot does vital national security work.

For decades, the Taft-Hartley Act has done serious damage to the labor movement — in part by making it impossible for workers to organize solidarity strikes.

Ecuador’s authoritarian drift under President Noboa has accelerated in recent months, with the country’s largest opposition party barred from upcoming local elections. At the same time, the US has deepened security cooperation with Ecuador, including conducting joint operations, despite ongoing human rights abuses linked to Noboa’s militarized security strategy.

Alan Greenspan’s legacy is mixed; he defied conventional wisdom on unemployment and inflation, but he badly mishandled two major bubbles. 

Republican claims of massive government fraud are difficult to reconcile with Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, which failed to uncover the large-scale abuses politicians continue to cite.

Reducing Federal Reserve transparency under Kevin Warsh could increase market uncertainty and create greater opportunities for insider influence and corruption.

Episode 39: What if every new service contract you’ve signed secretly stripped away your right to sue? Senior Economist and CEPR co-founder Dean Baker speaks with Brendan Ballou, former federal prosecutor and founder of the Public Integrity Project, about his new book When Companies Run the Courts.